Abstract

We show that certain extended dissipative dynamical systems naturally evolve into a critical state, with no characteristic time or length scales. The temporal ``fingerprint'' of the self-organized critical state is the presence of flicker noise or 1/f noise; its spatial signature is the emergence of scale-invariant (fractal) structure.

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Self-organized criticalityDissipative systemStatistical physicsCriticalityScale invariancePhysicsSignature (topology)Noise (video)FractalComputer scienceMathematicsQuantum mechanicsArtificial intelligenceMathematical analysisGeometry

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Year
1988
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article
Volume
38
Issue
1
Pages
364-374
Citations
4654
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Per Bak, Chao Tang, Kurt Wiesenfeld (1988). Self-organized criticality. Physical review. A, General physics , 38 (1) , 364-374. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.38.364

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10.1103/physreva.38.364
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9900174

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